Ruben Guthrie (2015)
Movie Info
Cast
as Ruben Guthrie
as Damian
as Zoya
as Virginia
as Chet
as Susan
as Vonny
as Ray
Critic Reviews for Ruben Guthrie
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It's all a bit low stakes,
Cowell makes his feature film début as writer/director/producer, bringing it to the screen with Patrick Brammall in terrific, tormented form as our titular 'hero'.
Perhaps Ruben Guthrie makes more sense if you watch it while drunk. Being sober, I loathed it.
An initially archetypal trajectory (boy loses girl; boy goes on mission to get her back) becomes something curlier and less conventional, with lashings of abrasive dialogue that recall its stage origins
It might be a case of something essential getting lost in the translation, but first-time director Brendan Cowell's adaptation of his play about an alcoholic advertising man on the road to redemption is a well-intentioned mess.
As a writer and actor, Cowell is obviously talented if erratic; as a filmmaker he has a long way to go.
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